A Grade 10 Kitsilano Secondary School student has developed a slick cellphone app for his classmates to help them remember their daily schedules and remind them to shut off their phones before class.

Calvin Liang, 15, developed the Kitsilano School App for Android and iOS devices with helpful feedback from fellow members of the school’s App Club. It’s the first application the Richmond-born student has developed that has hit online stores, and the free app has been downloaded about 400 times — mostly by students — since it arrived last year for Android phones and this month for Apple phones.

Liang said the feedback he has received from students has been good, but he’s developing for a tough crowd of peers.

“People walking around the halls will yell at me that they want some other features, and if there are some problems — like a spelling error ... people are talking about it in class,” he said, laughing.

“But there are a lot of good comments,” said Liang, who had made no attempt to hide his identity as the app’s creator, having stated in the program’s “about” page that he’s “the dude with Google Glass,” and there are probably not many of them wandering the halls.

Liang’s recently released iOS version has a clean, simple interface done in school colours — yellow with blue accents. When a user first launches the app, it asks if they would like to enable a “Keep Quiet” feature, which reminds them to mute their phone before the start of classes — a feature teachers likely appreciate.

But Liang primarily built the app for students, and it’s particularly useful in keeping track of class schedules, which vary from day to day and week to week, and organizing homework assignments.

Liang said he hopes to launch a future career in tech.

“Programming is a pretty good job, I would say,” he said. “Joining a company like Google or Facebook would be pretty cool.”

For now, much of his spare time is spent troubleshooting his app.

“We’re still trying to fix bugs and improve the performance,” he explained.

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